by MattTheEagle on Sun Sep 29, 2019 2:41 pm
I would be in favor of a mid-season firing. I credit Addazio to upgrading the talent at BC from when Spaz left and leaving BC in a better position than he found it, but it's clear he is a max 7 win coach. This season might not even get to 7. However, regardless of how BC ends the season, the BC job will be much more attractive than when we fired Spaz. There is plenty of talent both young and old and we have upgraded our facilities making it easier to recruit for the next coach.
Many of these are huge risks, but I have not included anyone that I think has a 0% chance of coming (I don't see Meyer, who is twice retired coaching anywhere). Anyone in the C/B and A categories would be an upgrade over Addazio and I would be happy with.
F hires: Significant risk being worse than Addazio:
*Don Brown - This is a terrible idea. He is a good DC, but how many years does he even have left before he retires? He has no Power 5 or NFL head coaching experience which is necessary if BC is going to hire someone 60+.
*Mike Elko
*Paul Peterson: Hire on staff, but should wait a few years then re-evaluate before considering for BC HC.
*Sean Gleeson: Hire on staff, but should wait a few years then re-evaluate before considering for BC HC.
*Gabe Infante: Hire on staff, but should wait a few years then re-evaluate before considering for BC HC.
C/B hire: Inspired hire but huge risk
*Jeff Hafley
*Anthony Campanile
*Al Washington
*Butch Jones
*Sonny Dykes
*Bret Bielema: Alvarez was a pain to coach under. Alvarez micromanages football worse than Gene.
*Brian Flores: I'm torn, I want to give this an A hire as he is a BC grad. The problem is a lack of HC experience with all of his experience in the NFL. That being said, I would be very happy with this hire as he would have huge upside, but definitely high risk.
*Luke Fickell: I would be very happy with this hire and there is a reasonable chance that we could land him. He isn't getting the OSU head coaching job in the near future with Ryan Day there, and being successful at a power 5 school like BC would help him immensely.
A hire:
*Al Golden
*Bill O'Brien
*Dave Clawson: BC should absolutely target Clawson. Wake has a much weaker football history than BC, plus recruiting is much harder at Wake and Clawson has managed to do a pretty good job finding talent particularly at the QB position. He is a northeast guy and would do very well at BC. The concern is not trying to get him to come over Wake, but that he'll likely get offers more attractive than BC.